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© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
Tapestry Mantle Border with Interlocked Birds and Snakes
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Tapestry Mantle Border with Interlocked Birds and Snakes

Place CreatedPeru, South America
CultureChancay
PeriodLate Intermediate
Dateca. 1000-1470 CE
MediumCotton
Credit LineEx coll. C. Clay and Virginia Aldridge
Dimensions12 1/2 x 11 in. (31.8 x 27.9 cm)
Object number2002.001.018
Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Gallery, Textile Rotation, March 2007 - September 2007
Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, Michael C. Carlos Museum, August 19 - December 17, 2017
MCCM Permanent Collection Gallery, Americas Organics Rotation 1, March 18, 2020 - March 2022
Published ReferencesMCCM Newsletter, September - November 2002.
Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, 2017, http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/items/show/19.
"Dialogues in Thread: the Quechua Concepts of Ayni, Ukhu, Tinku, Q'iwa, and Ushay," Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, 2017, http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/exhibits/show/essays/dialoguesinthread.
ProvenanceEx coll. Curtice M. Clay Aldridge (1910-2003), Columbus, Georgia.
Status
Not on view
Collections
  • Art of the Americas